arXiv:2605.05732cs.LGcs.AI2026-05

通过干预表示空间避免遗忘,实现大模型持续学习

CRAFT: Forgetting-Aware Intervention-Based Adaptation for Continual Learning

  • 不更新权重,改用低秩干预调整隐藏表示
  • 在多基准测试中性能优于现有方法,遗忘率显著降低
  • 适合需要长期迭代更新的大模型应用

大型语言模型(LLMs)可通过微调获得新能力,但持续适应常导致灾难性遗忘。我们提出CRAFT,一种无需更新模型权重的持续学习框架,而是学习对隐藏表示的低秩干预。CRAFT分为三阶段:首先基于输出分布差异将任务路由至相似任务组;随后利用与该组先验状态的KL散度进行模型微调,直接控制遗忘并决定收敛;最后使用相同的KL信号将新任务的干预合并到共享表示中。这一设计通过单一KL目标统一了任务路由、正则化与合并机制。CRAFT在多个基准和模型规模下均优于强基线的LoRA方法,且对任务顺序不敏感。结果表明,基于输出空间差异引导表示空间的适应控制,为大模型持续学习提供了可扩展且原则化的路径。

原文摘要 · Abstract (English)

Large language models (LLMs) can acquire new capabilities through fine-tuning, but continual adaptation often leads to catastrophic forgetting. We propose CRAFT, a continual learning framework that avoids updating model weights by instead learning low-rank interventions on hidden representations. CRAFT proceeds in three stages: it first routes each task to a group of similar tasks based on output-distribution divergence; it then fine-tunes the model using a Kullback-Leibler (KL) divergence against the group's prior state, which directly controls forgetting and determines convergence; finally, it merges interventions for the updated task into the shared representation using the same KL signal. This design unifies routing, regularization, and merging through a single KL-based objective. CRAFT improves overall performance and reduces forgetting compared to strong LoRA-based approaches across multiple benchmarks and model scales, while remaining robust to task ordering. These results suggest that controlling adaptation in representation space, guided by output-space divergence, provides a scalable and principled approach to continual learning in LLMs.

持续学习大模型表示干预遗忘控制

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